Friday, July 15 2022 21:07

ArmInfo.Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev expressed hope that the first meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, which will be held on July 16 in Tbilisi,  will have positive results. This is reported by Turan agency.

Speaking today at a meeting on the results of the first half of the  year, Aliyev said that "a good result of this meeting may be that the  Armenian side will form its own working group", noting that the  Azerbaijani side has already formed its own working group.

At the same time, Aliyev again accused Armenia of not fulfilling the  obligation to withdraw its troops from "the territory of Azerbaijan"  after the signing of the peace agreement on November 10, 2020.   "Unfortunately, there are more negative moments. One of them is  Armenia's ignoring the issues enshrined in the declaration signed on  November 10, 2020. The November 10 declaration is actually an act of  capitulation of Armenia, and Armenia, as the losing side in the war,  has assumed obligations. These obligations are clearly indicated  there. One of them is the withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces  from Karabakh.

Aliyev believes that this issue has not yet been resolved. "We have  repeatedly raised this issue, but Armenia is prolonging it. At the  same time, we raised this issue with the Russian military leadership,  and a few months ago, a high-ranking official of the Russian Defense  Ministry during his visit to Azerbaijan, promised our Ministry of  Defense that by June the Armenian armed formations would be withdrawn  from Karabakh. But it is already the middle of July, and this issue  has not yet been resolved. Armenia does not fulfill this obligation,  contrary to the November 10 declaration. The Russian peacekeepers,  the Russian side also signed the Declaration on November 10, and so  to speak, they are not forcing them to do so. Of course, this is an  unacceptable situation. Because the presence of Armenian armed forces  on the territory of Azerbaijan is completely unacceptable. If Armenia  does not want to withdraw its armed formations, then let them speak  about it openly so that we know what to do. What will be our answer?  Now it is inappropriate to talk about it," the President of  Azerbaijan said, Turan reports.

At the same time, Aliyev lamented the lack of progress in the  normalization of Azerbaijani-Armenian relations after the end of the  44-day war. At the same time, he voiced some positive points,  including the first meeting of the working groups on delimitation. "I  believe that the second meeting will be devoted to discussing  practical issues. Of course, we do not yet expect quick results from  cooperation in this format, since delimitation is a lengthy process.  But in any case, this process has been launched, we can consider it  as a successful development," he said.

Aliyev expressed confidence that the five basic principles proposed  by Azerbaijan for establishing peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia  would be implemented by the leadership of Armenia. "We discussed this  issue with several neighboring states - Turkey, Russia, Iran, and  this position is supported. The European Union, the United States of  America - we discussed this issue with these partners s well, and in  fact, now the basis has been created for the start of peace  negotiations. Again, Azerbaijan has taken the initiative, and we are  forming these five principles, and if we had not taken this  initiative, then there would still be no development in this  direction," Aliyev said.